What if somebody agreed to feature or rather display your site on theirs for one whole day for free? Yes, that means your site gets all their viewers and also the chance to convert some casual readers to subscribers. This is not part of a special contest, but a regular feature at Fechr.

What is Fechr?

Fechr (pronounced Feature) is a website, that features another website everyday for the entire length of the day for free. Meaning, if your website is featured, it gets all the users that fechr receives for 24 hours from 12 AM EST.

What is the catch?

Currentl, the service is being offered free of cost. Howeve, it may become a paid service charging upto $10 for a day’s feature, which may still turn out to be a good deal looking at the increasing traffic numbers by the day. All you have to do to get featured on their homepage is write up a short review about fechr on your website and let them know about it.

Sooner or later, you will get a feature on their blog. The fact is that, the sites are fetched randomly for a feature, so yours might not turn up at once. But, since the traffic is growing everyday, your site appearing at a later date will only do you a favor.

Also, the site will probably refuse low quality sites or sites containing offensive content. They expect to feature good quality sites that deserve traffic, so if you have good content, you have nothing to worry about!

There is a small navigation bar at the top that tells us about fechr. Your site basically appears in an iFrame and that may not boost up traffic numbers on your site directly. However, if you have got compelling content, then you can be certain this is the exposure you want to jumpstart your blog.

All said and done, the service is free and also you get a full day’s feature, what more can you ask for? And the earlier you apply, the better chance you’ve got of getting a early feature! As you can see Bloggrrl was the day’s feature when this screenshot was taken, I wonder when she came to know about this!

Tell me if you would try out this unique service sometime and leave your comments regarding this service. Thanks for reading!

On the sidelines, Daily Moolah is giving you a chance to win a copy of the insanely popular Aaron Wall’s SEO Book which is probably one of the most preferred references on Search Engine Optimization.

If you are looking for a mobile service to search, download and watch videos from various video sharing sites, right on your mobile then Avot Media offers the perfect solution for you. Avot mV is a free mobile software that helps you to watch such videos with ease. With Avot mV, you are able to get access to a wide variety of online video channels from where you can download and thereby watch popular videos, from your mobile phone or PDA.

Requirements:

For using Avot mV on your mobile device, you would be requiring Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC or Smartphone mobile devices. Support for other devices are in the pipeline.

How to get Avot mV?

There are several ways to get Avot mV installed on your mobile device:

• Download the client from the Avot Mobile Site.
• Download the desktop from Avot Media and then enter your mobile details to get the cab file delivered to it
• Download the exe file to the PC and run it from the PC using ActiveSync or WMDC (Windows Mobile Device Centre)

Features of Avot mV

Avot mV possesses several interesting features that is useful for the average user and provide a good amount of functionality for everyone. You can check out the Avot Blog for updates and snippets regarding Avot mV.

Search:

You are able to search for the videos you are interested in and then download them using Avot mV for viewing on your mobile device. This is very useful considering the fact that searches would give quicker results for your queries than manual navigation.

Direct Streaming:

Avot mV does not need to convert videos to mobile format before play. Instead it has the ability to stream videos directly from the respective video sharing sites. This results in high video quality and a continuous video stream without cuts.

Playlists:

The software lets users create playlists and organize the web videos in it. Thus they can be watched on the go. Multiple playlists can be added as well, thus giving the users a wide range of options to choose from.

WiFi support:

Avot mV works globally across all EDGE, 3G carriers and EV-DO data networks and Wi-Fi with current preview on Windows Mobile phones. This gives more flexibility to users wanting to use the software.

Support:

Avot assures support and addressing of problems, if any. You can send in the feedback at feedback@avotmedia.com or your support queries to support@avotmedia.com.

Feedback for Avot

“Finally, a company has found a way to play any Internet video on a mobile phone,” said J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D., VP and Chief Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. “Avot Media not only can play any Internet video but do it better than any other company as well as providing an easy and convenient way to search for relevant videos and aggregate them into play lists that are then streamed to the mobile device.”

Thus Avot seems to be a very useful solution for video searching and viewing from mobile devices. However, the limited support is certainly not good for the service and I would recommend the addition of support for more devices in the near future. Overall, it sounds interesting and also the fact that it is free, gives you even more incentive to try it out.

Do drop in your opinions on this service and if you feel it would be useful! Thanks for reading!

Grading or rather, relative grading is used in almost every educational institution to rate the students and how good they are when compared to others. With a large number of websites all over the place, it is only fair that websites get a grading tool as well. Keeping that in mind, Website Grader offers a fully fledged website grading service.

You only need to submit the URI to your site for a complete analysis of the site. Optionally, you can submit relevant keywords for your site and also details of your sites’ competitors to enable Website Grader to verify search engine rankings for the keywords and also tell you how you rank against your competitors.

Website Grade

The most important feature, as the name suggests is the Website Grade that is provided. To calculate the Website Grade, the details of the other sites that were submitted earlier to the site are counted. Based on that, your grade is given. For example, if your website’s grade is 90, then it means that your website is better than 90% of the websites that were submitted to it.

The other details you can obtain include:

• PR, Alexa Rank, inbound links, del.icio.us bookmarks, indexed pages etc.
• Website structure – meta tags, title, description
• Domain info, expiration date etc.
• Heading summary – details of heading tags and what should not be used
• Image summary – usage and presence of images
• Googlebot last crawl date and time
• Readability level
• Keyword rankings on search engines

All these details can be obtained without the hassle of registration on the site. Also, for every topic mentioned above, details are given as to what the topic is and why it is useful for SEO.

Digg Submission Summary

And for registered users, the Digg Submission Summary is offered as well. This tells us about how many articles were submitted from the site to Digg.com and also how many diggs the articles altogether received. It also mentions the number of times the site or any article from it made it to the front page of Digg.

You can also add a site to the dashboard and compare it with other sites later on. The algorithm for the Website Grader is being constantly updated and so some aspects of the site may not work for now. However that may change as new features may be added soon.

I recommend that you try out this service and tell me what grade your website gets. Do you think that this an useful service?

Thanks for reading!

On the sidelines, World of Angel is hosting a contest and is giving away $100. All you have to do to participate is to stumble the site, subscribe to the RSS feed and send a pingback from your site. Simple enough to participate and $100 to be won, so go ahead and try it!

It is a known fact that there is an overwhelming number of websites and blogs on the internet. So, what sets apart these sites from one another and what makes these sites survive and exist in this highly competitive arena? The answer is Content. That’s right, the sites providing the best content to their readers, stay on top and rule the roost, while the rest disappear into oblivion.

So, it is absolutely essential to post good content on a regular basis to your site or blog. However, when you run out of time or encounter writer’s block, it still is essential to keep your blog going.

How do you do this?

The best way to overcome this to purchase content and use it on your site, thus keeping your readers satisfied. Constant Content offers a one stop shop for all your article and content needs. You can purchase quality content from them for use on your site. There are over 10,000 writers to choose from!

Types of available content

The content that is available is classified into Articles, Tutorials Reviews and Blog Entries. There is also Multimedia content such as Photos, Videos and Illustrations available. Each of these categories have a variety of sub categories, thus giving you an easy method to browse and select articles that are relevant to the content of your site.

Why choose Constant Content?

Constant Content has several features that enables buying content a breeze, which include

• Checking articles for grammar, spelling and quality
• Checking for originality/plagiarism
• Prevent indexing by search engines
• Option to request for an article on a topic of your choice
• Different licenses

Detailed information on the authors and their articles are also available. A preview of all articles are available (usually of upto 75% of the entire content). There are also several articles with free licenses that you can use on your site, without having the need to pay a penny.

Licenses for the content

For every article you purchase, there is a maximum of 3 types of licenses. The first one is the usage license. This gives you the right to use the article but others can also purchase and use the article. The unique license (which is priced higher) ensures that others can’t purchase the same article as it is removed from the site after your purchase. The full rights license enables you to modify the article, re-credit to yourself and also re-distribute it and resell it as well.

The full rights license would give you the maximum freedom to play around with the articles, however its cost would be the deciding factor here. Given below is a table comparing the various licenses.

Payment Details

You need to create a customer account before buying articles. After this you are given the opportunity to pay using credit card or PayPal which is very thoughtful since most webmasters prefer PayPal for easy and hassle free transaction. Once you’ve paid up, the payment is processed and the link for the download of the files are sent to your email ID soon after.

What else I would expect..

Since the multimedia section is quite new, the content there is almost nil. An improvement in content here would do a world of good for the site.

I am sure that the site has great potential and though ordinary bloggers may not be interested in spending much for articles, commercial websites can certainly find something of value and relevance at Constant Content. To highlight their service and its features, they’ve ordered this ReviewMe review from Siteguide.

Do tell me what you think of this service and your suggestions for any other features that may be added to it. Thanks for reading!

Driveway is a free online file sharing service just like the others out there, but there are a couple of features that set it apart from the others. So, let me get straight to the features of this service.

Single/Multiple Upload

You are allowed to upload multiple files in one take, with a maximum file size limit for upto 500 Mib per file. You can enter the email of the anybody whom you want to share it with. There are 2 upload modes, ‘Send Files for Read’ or ’Send Files for Edit’. The first allows the file to only be downloaded and read, while the second lets you edit the file. This applies for MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint files only, though.

Driveway Web Widget:

The widget is provided to view or share the different files you want. You can insert the widget on any blog or site you want and share the files that you have uploaded. You can play and / or view files directly in the widget and also download them.

Driveway Plugin

This is an interesting feature where the plugin is basically a desktop application using which you can upload files right from your PC by simply right-clicking and selecting to upload. For folders, it creates a zip file prior to upload and then uploads the file. All this can be done without even visiting the site. This may be useful for people who upload on a constant basis and because of its simplicity.

Do tell me if you think that these features are useful and if you would consider using it sometime. Thanks for reading!